This phenomenon, in which local historians have steadily relocated Cabbagetown from the district south of Gerrard Street (an area once known as “North America’s largest Anglo-Saxon slum”) to a gentrified area north and east of the corner of Parliament and Gerrard, has turned Regent Park — the original site of Cabbagetown — into a kind of cultural Other. I’ll then turn to representations of Regent Park, Moss Park and St. Jamestown to explore how these neighbourhoods are represented as a kind of contrast class to contemporary Cabbagetown — even though these run-down neighbourhoods have more in common with literary Cabbagetown than the quaintly gentrified Heritage Conservation District that has since claimed the name. Works I’ll discuss here include Mark Thurman’s Cabbagetown Gang (1987), Deborah Ellis’ Looking for X (1999) and Rabindranath Maharaj’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy (2010).